Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:05:57 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote:
> * Would you consider including the latest versin of the zooming patch
> that I sent you?
Where is that at? Has it been well-tested? The previous zoom patch
broke a bunch of other things, and I've disabled it for now. If this
new version has been sufficiently tested, I will consider it.
> * minor thing: since we are not shipping a library, there isn't a very
> strict requirement of the transitional binary packages be steplocked
> with the main binary. Therefore, the binary:Version substitution
> variable could be relaxed to source:Version (there won't be a problem
> with binNMU's).
I tried a couple ways of doing this, and they all resulted in lintian
errors; whereas the current approach doesn't, so I'm sticking with it.
A patch is welcome.
> * it would be so darned nice if zxpdf handled:
> + xz compressed files.
> + pdf files with case-insensitive extensions, as, sometimes, .Pdf
> files are seen in the wild.
Can you submit a bug report for that (and perhaps a patch)?
Other than that, I think I addressed all of the other issues. A new
version has been uploaded. See:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf
Thanks for your review!
Mike
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